Rethinking... (Re: RFC: fp printing speedup...)

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Nathan Myers <ncm-nospam@cantrip.org> writes:

[...]

| > To me the standard seems to imply this, but no guarantees are given.
| > If the standard doesn't intend this to be true, that makes the array
| > form nearly useless, no?
| > 
| > If the standard does intend this to be the case, then we don't need to
| > loop with widen(char) and can use the array form instead.
| 
| Absolutely you can use the array form.  Anybody who suggested that
| anything should work right when widen gives different results for 
| single char and array forms would be laughed off the list.

that is not an attitude that makes it possible to have any sound
technical work. 

-- Gaby